mr_fender
Well-known member
Hey all,
Just thought I'd drop a couple of pics of my latest work in progress. I building two thiele cabs and a head cab for my Mark IVa. My back is thanking me already for no longer having to lug that 90 lb little beast of a combo around anymore. With casters, it's not bad on flat ground, but stairs and lifting it up into the back of my SUV is hernia territory. The new head is about 50 lbs and each thiele is about 40 lbs, which is much easier to handle. Anyway, here's the before:
BTW, this combo cab will probably be showing up on ebay pretty soon. I'll let ya'll know before I post it.
Although not finished, here's the MKIV's new home:
This one was taken before I rounded over the corners on the head cab. The speakers include the EVM12L from my combo and a new Eminence Delta Pro 12A. The Delta sounds very similar to the EV, but has more bass and a smoother high end. They sound HUGE together.
Here's one with the rounding done and the grill frames done too:
Since these pics, I've painted the insides and faces flat black and drilled all the screw holes for the corners, handles, etc. I'll probably start on the tolex today after work. I was going to do cream tolex and oxblood stripe grills in the full fender fashion similar to the original combo cab, but decided to go the traditional black bronco and black grillcloth route. Looking at pics of cream "stacks", it didn't look right to me. I try to post some pics as I finish the tolex.
Just because I have it, here's a porn shot of naked belly of my Mark IV:
{insert cat whistle here!}
I happened to notice inside the chasis, the date 7-12-91. My baby now has a birthday! I knew it was 7-91 from the mark on the bottom, but the inside mark basically gives me a born-on-date. She's over 17 years old and still runs like a champ and sounds fantastic!
I want to take a second to thank everyone here that helped with this project, especially gts. It's been a lot of work (and fun!), and I couldn't have done it without the great info from folks here on the board. Thanks a million and wish me luck on the tolex.
Just thought I'd drop a couple of pics of my latest work in progress. I building two thiele cabs and a head cab for my Mark IVa. My back is thanking me already for no longer having to lug that 90 lb little beast of a combo around anymore. With casters, it's not bad on flat ground, but stairs and lifting it up into the back of my SUV is hernia territory. The new head is about 50 lbs and each thiele is about 40 lbs, which is much easier to handle. Anyway, here's the before:
BTW, this combo cab will probably be showing up on ebay pretty soon. I'll let ya'll know before I post it.
Although not finished, here's the MKIV's new home:
This one was taken before I rounded over the corners on the head cab. The speakers include the EVM12L from my combo and a new Eminence Delta Pro 12A. The Delta sounds very similar to the EV, but has more bass and a smoother high end. They sound HUGE together.
Here's one with the rounding done and the grill frames done too:
Since these pics, I've painted the insides and faces flat black and drilled all the screw holes for the corners, handles, etc. I'll probably start on the tolex today after work. I was going to do cream tolex and oxblood stripe grills in the full fender fashion similar to the original combo cab, but decided to go the traditional black bronco and black grillcloth route. Looking at pics of cream "stacks", it didn't look right to me. I try to post some pics as I finish the tolex.
Just because I have it, here's a porn shot of naked belly of my Mark IV:
{insert cat whistle here!}
I happened to notice inside the chasis, the date 7-12-91. My baby now has a birthday! I knew it was 7-91 from the mark on the bottom, but the inside mark basically gives me a born-on-date. She's over 17 years old and still runs like a champ and sounds fantastic!
I want to take a second to thank everyone here that helped with this project, especially gts. It's been a lot of work (and fun!), and I couldn't have done it without the great info from folks here on the board. Thanks a million and wish me luck on the tolex.